How red-state politics are shaving years off American lives [Ohio focus]

[AllBlue]

1. I grew up in Northern Ohio

And unfortunately, this is true. Amazing medical care is available
to some in the Cleveland clinic system, but many, many of my friends
and relatives are dead and buried; various reasons. I am 65 and now
live in Oregon, as place I am unlikely to leave for long. I had a strong
feeling when I was a teenager that moving west was the answer to a
good life, and while it's expensive here, it can be more costly beyond
simple dollars and cents to live in many other places, imo. (Red states,
mostly)